Logic A Very Short Introduction

Name: Logic A Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192893208

ISBN-10: 0192893203

ISBN-13: 9780192893208

Edition: 2000

Authors: Graham Priest

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Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. Graham Priest explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic addresses many issues.

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Graham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melobourne, and Arche Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews



Preface



Validity: What Follows from What?



Truth Functions - or Not?



Names and Quantifiers: is Nothing Something?



Descriptions and Existence: Did the Greeks Worship Zeus?



Self-Reference: What is This Chapter About?



Necessity and Possibility: What Will Be Must Be?



Conditionals: What's in an If?



The Future and the Past: is Time Real?



Identity and Change: is Anything Ever the Same?



Vagueness: How Do You Stop Sliding Down a Slippery Slope?



Probability: the Strange Case of the Missing Reference Class



Inverse Probabitity: You Can't Be Indifferent about It!



Decision Theory



A Little History and Some Further Reading


Glossary


Problems


Bibliography


General Index


Index of Names